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  • Tesco expands into Ireland
    UK supermarket chain Tesco has expanded into Ireland with its £630 million (US$1 billion) acquisition of Associated British Food's Irish supermarket interests. These include market leaders Quinnsworth, in Ireland, and Stewarts, in Northern Ireland. The deal, which has yet to be cleared by the European Commission, is Tesco's second attempt to enter the Irish market. It is the largest transaction to take place in Ireland.
    April 30 1997
  • Canada boosts access for foreign banks
    A new raft of financial services reforms opens the way for more competition from abroad, among other significant reforms. By Paul Belanger of Blake, Cassels & Graydon, Toronto
    April 30 1997
  • Seeking compliance
    Robert Mooney, general counsel and deputy chief administrative officer, Asia Pacific region, Merrill Lynch, talks to Richard Forster
    April 30 1997
  • ADT merges with Tyco International
    Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, New York, and Freshfields, London, are representing Tyco International, the world's largest manufacturer of fire and safety systems, in its US$5.6 billion merger with ADT, the largest provider of electric security services in North America. Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, Appleby, Spurling & Kempe, Bermuda, and Allen & Overy, London, are advising ADT.
    April 30 1997
  • First Bank System/US Bancorp merger
    First Bank System of Minnesota is making an agreed US$8.7 billion all-share bid for US Bancorp. The merged bank will be known as US Bancorp, and will be the eighth-largest US bank by market capitalization. The deal highlights the trend towards geographic consolidation among US banks.
    April 30 1997
  • Gazprom US$2.5 billion facility agreed
    Russian gas company RAO Gazprom has obtained a US$2.5 billion credit facility, its first such facility without government guarantees and other public sponsoring. The loan is secured by proceeds from gas sales contracts with Western gas purchasers, and will finance sections of the Jamal pipeline. It is governed by German law and underwritten by an international consortium of banks lead managed by Dresdner Bank Group.
    April 30 1997
  • China
    China promulgated the PRC Anti-dumping and Anti-subsidy Regulations on March 25 1997. The Regulations aim to maintain fair competition in foreign trade and protect the relevant Chinese domestic industries in the event dumped and subsidized 'imported products' cause substantial damage to the established domestic industries, pose a substantial threat of damage, or create substantial obstacles to the establishment of domestic industries.
    April 30 1997
  • Talking points
    Third Annual In-House Counsel Event
    April 30 1997
  • Dual listing for Beijing Datang
    Beijing Datang Power Generation Company has listed on both the London and Hong Kong stock exchanges. It is the first Chinese company to have an equity listing in London. The share offer raised about US$400 million and was made possible by the signing last October of a Memorandum of Understanding by regulators and exchanges in the UK and China.
    April 30 1997
  • SBC in record acquisition
    US company SBC Communications has completed its US$16.5 billion acquisition of the Pacific Telesis group. The merger creates the largest US provider of local telephone services, with a market value of US$47.9 billion. The merger was completed after approval from the California Public Utilities Commission.
    April 30 1997
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